diff --git a/apps/client/src/services/content_renderer.ts b/apps/client/src/services/content_renderer.ts
index cfe4383f09..d6f14b9550 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/services/content_renderer.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/services/content_renderer.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ export interface RenderOptions {
     /** Set of note IDs that have already been seen during rendering to prevent infinite recursion. */
     seenNoteIds?: Set<string>;
     showTextRepresentation?: boolean;
+    isPrinting?: boolean;
 }
 
 const CODE_MIME_TYPES = new Set(["application/json"]);
diff --git a/apps/client/src/services/content_renderer_text.ts b/apps/client/src/services/content_renderer_text.ts
index 1684ce766c..758381611a 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/services/content_renderer_text.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/services/content_renderer_text.ts
@@ -47,9 +47,13 @@ export async function postProcessRichContent(note: FNote | FAttachment, $rendere
     await froca.getNotes(noteIdsToPrefetch);
 
     for (const el of referenceLinks) {
-        const innerSpan = document.createElement("span");
-        await link.loadReferenceLinkTitle($(innerSpan), el.href);
-        el.replaceChildren(innerSpan);
+        if (options.isPrinting) {
+            await link.loadReferenceLinkTitle($(el));
+        } else {
+            const innerSpan = document.createElement("span");
+            await link.loadReferenceLinkTitle($(innerSpan), el.href);
+            el.replaceChildren(innerSpan);
+        }
     }
 
     await rewriteMermaidDiagramsInContainer($renderedContent[0] as HTMLDivElement);
diff --git a/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/legacy/ListPrintView.tsx b/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/legacy/ListPrintView.tsx
index c2a284e7de..ac6e2074f5 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/legacy/ListPrintView.tsx
+++ b/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/legacy/ListPrintView.tsx
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ export function ListPrintView({ note, noteIds: unfilteredNoteIds, onReady, onPro
                 if (isNotePrintable(note)) {
                     const content = await content_renderer.getRenderedContent(note, {
                         trim: false,
-                        noChildrenList: true
+                        noChildrenList: true,
+                        isPrinting: true
                     });
 
                     const contentEl = content.$renderedContent[0];